moraine
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When part of its moraine slid into the lake a little after 10 p.m. on the night of Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
A pool at the east edge of the moraine at the glacier’s bottom-fed Thielsen Creek and formed a miniature ecosystem.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2021
The cemetery rests, as well, on heights formed by the Ice Age terminal moraine, while the bedrock schist she imprinted dates even deeper in geological time.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
Material carried by the glacier is called moraine, which is an accumulation of glacial till produced by the grinding and erosive effects of a glacier.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
Twenty stone monuments stood in a somber row along the crest of the glacier’s terminal moraine, overlooking the mist-filled valley: memorials to climbers who had died on Everest, most of them Sherpa.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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